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Kindness of strangers at the Soup Kitchen

I volunteer to cook at a local soup kitchen for the homeless once a while. The last time I cooked for them I cried copiously.

No, it was not that I hated the task. On the contrary, I do enjoy it and put in a lot of love in the food preparation. It was the onions – peeling and chopping 2kg of onions. The fumes emanating from them will inevitably get to me and I start to cry. A good friend of mine, having seen me cry so much, bought me a pair of Onion Goggles for my birthday earlier this year. It was an excellent present – I may look really stupid wearing it but it worked.

As usual one of my sons came to help me out. Son number 2 is getting pretty good with peeling carrots. As I put on my precious Onion Goggles, my son rolled his eyes muttering under his breathe, “Oh, Mum!!!”

This morning as I was peeling some carrots, I heard a timid knock on the kitchen door. As I opened the door, I could see a little old man smiling, “Would you like to have a little marrow and some potatoes from my allotment to use for the Soup Kitchen?”

“How very kind of you! That will be just perfect for my meat stew,” I grinned with delight.

“Oh good, my friend is just cycling over right now,” little old man beamed back.

And sure enough, round the corner came another little old man on a tricycle made with a sturdy front compartment. In that compartment was a large two foot long marrow and an enormous burlap bag of potatoes weighing about 20 kgs! No wonder the poor chap was puffing so hard on that tricycle.

I am convinced that these lovely gifts have enhanced the flavour of today’s meal a hundredfold. We had a pork stew with carrots, parsnips, potatoes, marrow and peas, served on a bed of rice. For the vegetarians, we cooked a vegetable and pasta dish.

It has been a good day and we fed about 80 today a nice home-cooked meal.

I was exhausted at the end of the day and picked up some KFC for dinner….

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Amber Hatcher is an avid traveller and loves to share her excitement and joy of her journeys and experiences. Good wholesome and healthy food is her other passion. Amber earns her living in the banking and clearing world and also has a property business.